How Do Companies Calculate Their Cost of Capital?

A new AFP survey finds only 8 percent of companies think their WACC estimates accurately reflect their actual cost of capital. Here's where those companies are getting their WACC figures.

By Treasury & Risk Staff|October 30, 2013 at 07:31 PM

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On Monday, the Association for Financial Professionals issued its “2013 AFP Estimating and Applying Cost of Capital Survey Report.” The survey of 424 finance professionals found that although financial planning and analysis (FP&A) might be the department that makes the most use of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) figures, it is generally not the department responsible for coming up with WACC estimates. In 46 percent of respondents’ companies, treasury is responsible for WACC calculations. This responsibility falls to finance in 32 percent of companies and to FP&A in only 18 percent.

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